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Hasan Minhaj

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

CHAPTER

The Modern Distraction of Language

"I remember life before anything that's good about me is from before the smartphone," he says. "It hasn't made me better in any ways, but I'm also addicted to it." Do you think our obsession with the weaponization of language is has always been there or is this a modern distraction? It's a modern distraction. The social media changed the earth. Social media, I'm old. Any I used to my vocabulary is all from book. It's not none of it's from social media. We're going to be arguing about trans issues as the giant tidal wave from climate change engulfs us. That is realer than anything we're talking about.

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